High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

They are not all omnicron cases about 30-40 percent are delta. We just got sick and had pneumonia - was vaxxed and boosted.

Turned into covid pneumonia - otherwise healthy, vaxxed and boosted.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

They are not all omnicron cases about 30-40 percent are delta. We just got sick and had pneumonia - was vaxxed and boosted.

Anonymous wrote:Our JK-8 private tested all students, faculty & staff on Sunday resulting in a positivity rate of a bit over 5%. We are back in school.

Oh, and they did modify masking-- asked for higher quality and/or double masking.

Our JK-8 private tested all students, faculty & staff on Sunday resulting in a positivity rate of a bit over 5%. We are back in school.

If anyone wants to nerd out on this stuff, DCPS put up its data for each school on self reported raptid tests. Interesting to look across the board for the schools with high compliance.

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/updates/dcps-rapid-testing-results-for-january-5-2022/

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

Well we moved OUT of private schools because of their COVID protocols (or lack thereof). They also weren’t willing to accommodate high risk kids that needed to stay home when their mitigation measures were non-existent. We realized what a crapshoot private schools in Md are because of the lack of oversight by the state BOE and health departments and chose to homeschool this year instead. And yes, during flu season we have also been extra cautious. Our kid has heart issues and even with all of us vaxxed they got both strains of the flu in 2019/20 winter about 2 months apart. So we knew all through this pandemic that breakthrough infections can happen and what flu like symptoms actually does to our child’s little body.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

With a someone who is high risk re vulnerability, what do you do as a family with a heavy flu season? Because based on our areas high vax rates, we have essentially boiled it down to that re outcomes. Specifically in this area. If we had lower vax rates, I would understand your challenge, but that is just not the case here.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

And most of those kids are in public schools, so when a private school takes steps that don't prioritize the safety of my family, they are contributing to those things in the most vulnerable.

You can't possibly claim that sending your privileged child to school with covid protects vulnerable kids from violence, unless you are a child abuser.

Fixed that for you.

PS - private schools are not exempt from any of those factors listed, but nice try using an ad hominem attack, and throwing in “privileged” to avoid it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

And most of those kids are in public schools, so when a private school takes steps that don't prioritize the safety of the community, they are contributing to those things in the most vulnerable.

You can't possibly claim that sending your privileged child to school with covid protects vulnerable kids from violence, unless you are a child abuser.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

I don't think your statistic is right. Omicron causes a wide variety of outcomes, especially in people who either aren't vaccinated, or whose bodies don't respond to the vaccine (e.g. immunocompromised), and I'm pretty sure the death rate and the hospitalization rate and the long term consequence rate are still higher than the flu.

But even if it were exactly like the flu, if we were seeing 10 - 20% of the people in our county testing positive for flu at the same moment, we'd have hospital overwhelm, and crises where there aren't enough essential workers, and we'd need to close down.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.